Tool to decrypt/encrypt like in Gold-Bug automatically. The short story entitled The Gold-Bug from Edgar Allan Poe presents a substitution cipher.
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Gold Bug Cipher
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Gold Bug Decoder
Gold Bug Encoder
Tool to decrypt/encrypt like in Gold-Bug automatically. The short story entitled The Gold-Bug from Edgar Allan Poe presents a substitution cipher.
Answers to Questions
How to encrypt using Gold-Bug cipher?
Gold bug code encryption uses a mono alphabetical substitution. Each letter corresponds to a symbol.
Example: DCODE is crypted †-‡†8
How to decrypt Gold-Bug cipher?
Goldbug cipher decryption requires to know the alphabet used to cipher for undo the monoalphabetical substitution.
Example: †-‡†8 is decrypted DCODE
How to recognize Gold-Bug ciphertext?
The ciphered message contains the characters † or ‡ (dagger and double dagger) and the 8 appears often. The index of coincidence is similar to the language of the plain text.
What are the variants of the Gold-Bug cipher?
Edgar Allan Poe suggests other alphabets with the same symbols, especially one in a few word on secret writing here 
When Gold-Bug have been invented?
Le story has been published in june 1843
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